Snow. Blizzards. We complain, dread the commute and the shoveling and—especially for New York City dwellers—the slush. But, in truth, we love the excitement, especially when the inches pile up and produce record numbers, and photographers—amateur and professional—can roam the streets. This becomes clearer when we look through the collections of the New-York Historical Society….

This post is by Melanie Rinehart, Assistant Archivist, Time Inc. Archive. LIFE Magazine was launched on November 23, 1936, for readers “to see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events.” The subject matter focused on both political and cultural events, and while the photographers captured iconic or scandalous photographs, it was rare that they…

This post was written by Mariam Touba, Reference Librarian for Printed Collections. New York City blackouts come with their own lore: There was the “Bronx is burning,” Son-of-Sam summer, and the looting of July 1977. Then there was the shadow of terrorism that hung about the darkened streets in August 2003, when suddenly the grid…